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You might be surprised to find out that kuro5hin -- k5 -- is still around. Well, not for much longer. Absentee landlord Rusty Foster (temporarily?) blocked new user sign ups and in the process somehow managed to block existing users from logging in.
Dedicated users can edit the HTML to add back the login box (or use a query string). Though once popular, K5 never recovered from the last time Rusty blocked new users (eventually relenting and adding a $5 sign up fee). RIP. Truly a Web 1.0 icon.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Sunday July 26 2015, @04:05PM
I like the community too, so far. There's no reason its trajectory can't continue in the way Slashdot's ought to have, especially since it cannot be sold to an evil corporation (tm). There will always be trolls, there will be troll posts coming from our very own fingertips because all of us have sacred cows or under-caffeinated mornings or moments of unusual crankiness. For me the most demotivating are that subspecies of trolls, the concern trolls. You know them, the ones who whine and whine about how everything sucks and how no one will like us and we ought to treat group X like special snowflakes so their feelings won't be hurt and waaa waaa waaa, yet they themselves never lift a finger to help or make things better.
But then you lurk at the eBBQ and watch NCommander's little blue territories (Venetians?) get pushed into the Adriatic while lamenting, "What happened to my Albanian army?!" (to me that sounds like asking, "Why are the French retreating?" ;-) and the other Soylentils are urging him to hire mercenaries; you exchange emails with editors who are trying to troubleshoot system issues you're seeing; and you read a post by HairyFeet or VLM or frojack or someone else that makes you stop and think about your certainties in a way you never had before; and you know that this is a place that's worth building.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Francis on Sunday July 26 2015, @06:49PM
The fact that we actually have a "-1 I disagree" mod option is a much needed improvement over the /. system. I don't think anybody really thinks that all those -1 posts over there are just because somebody is wrong and spouting useless BS. I've watched at times as people waste 10 or more points using the mod system to argue with each other.
Getting a -1 because the person with points disagrees isn't great, but at least there is some honesty about why the mod was made rather than a contrivance.
What killed /. more than anything was when politics moved in on basically every topic and people stopped even reading the summaries or other posts.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:50PM
It's even better than that: the Disagree mod is -0 unless I've missed a change :) and Funny is +1 as it ought to be IMHO.
I think a lot of people here realize that everybody else are perfectly able to write both things one agrees a lot with or finds interesting or insightful or funny as well as not, and that calms things down for the most part. If anything I think SoylentNews is improving and moderation to +3 and +4 is becoming more common.
Quite a lot has happened during the last years giving everybody a lot to think about. I have no idea what's going on over at /. any longer but if (only if) it's the “same old same old” re:politics in the comments then that's just completely weird in my opinion.
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(Score: 2) by Francis on Monday July 27 2015, @09:56PM
Unlike /. you can change the values for the various mods. So a disagree defaults to 0, but sometimes it's -1 if somebody has changed the value. Unless I'm misunderstanding, I just started getting mod points recently.
(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:40PM
I've been here since nearly the beginning, and frankly I find the quality of articles to be improving on a daily basis. There's some really interesting stuff here, whereas at the beginning there was a higher degree of articles that didn't interest me at all. The quality of the writing in the submitted blurbs is better too.
Slashdot still has some interesting articles, but they're easily reposted elsewhere for discussion, and the quality of the comments on that site is atrocious. I used to read Slashdot exclusively for the interesting and useful info in the comments. There is precious little of that now. Kuro5hin, by the way, is like an empty alleyway with poo-covered newspapers blowing around in the wind. It's been a wasteland since I first visited it out of curiosity ten years ago. Thought for sure the owner had died and no one had the password to post there. Nuke it and put it out of its obvious agonizing misery!
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